Arlen Meyers is a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org . He has created several medical device and digital health companies. Most of them failed. Some are on life support. His primary research centers around biomedical and health innovation and entrepreneurship and life science technology commercialization.

He also teaches, consults and runs a non-profit global biomedical innovation and entrepreneurship network at www.sopenet.org, helping people get their ideas to patients.

At the University of Colorado-Denver, he consults and speaks to companies, governments, colleges and universities around the world who need my expertise and contacts in the areas of bio entrepreneurship, bioscience, healthcare, healthcare IT, medical tourism -- nationally and internationally, new product development, product design, and financing new ventures.

He's a former Harvard-Macy fellow and In 2010, completing a Fulbright at Kings Business, the commercialization office of technology transfer at Kings College in London. Publications include "Building the Case for Biotechnology." "Optical Detection of Cancer", and " The Life Science Innovation Roadmap". He's also an associate editor of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology and Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape Reference: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

In addition, Arlen is a faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver Graduate School where I teach Biomedical Entrepreneurship and am an iCorps participant, trainer and industry mentor.

He has also authored many books and articles and am the co-editor of "Digital Health Entrepreneurship"